freococo/moi-news-articles-dataset

MOI News & Article Dataset 🇲🇲

This dataset contains over 16,000 cleaned news articles and feature stories extracted from the official website of the Ministry of Information (MOI) of Myanmar: moi.gov.mm. It is intended for use in news title generation, text classification, and Myanmar NLP research.

The dataset is shared in the spirit of supporting freedom of information, language preservation, and the development of AI tools for the Burmese language (မြန်မာဘာသာ).

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🗂️ Dataset Overview

• Name: moi-news-articles-dataset
• Language: Burmese (Myanmar)
• Format: CSV
• Rows: 16,248
• Columns: title, content, url, date
• Target: title (for generation tasks)

All rows with missing or blank titles have been removed to ensure clean, usable training data.

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🧠 Use Cases

• 📰 Generating headlines from article body text
• 🏷️ Classifying news by topic or content
• 🧪 NLP research and model fine-tuning for Burmese
• 📚 Teaching text summarization or content retrieval

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🔍 Dataset Fields

Column	Description
title	Title of the article or news post
content	Full body of the article
url	Original link to the news or article on the MOI website
date	Published date as listed on the source

Example:

title,content,url,date
ရန်ကုန်ငါးဖမ်းလုပ်ငန်းသိပ္ပံကျောင်း ပထမနှစ်ကို ဘာသာရပ် ၁၅ ခုဖြင့် ဖွင့်လှစ်သင်ကြားမည်,ရန်ကုန်ငါးဖမ်းလုပ်ငန်းသိပ္ပံကျောင်း ပထမနှစ်ကို ဘာသာရပ် ၁၅ ခုဖြင့် ဖွင့်လှစ်သင်ကြားမည်,https://www.moi.gov.mm/news/21717,2022-02-05

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⚠️ Ethical and Political Disclaimer

Important Note The source of this dataset, MOI Myanmar, is operated under the direct control of the Myanmar military regime, using public tax money. Many published pieces may represent state viewpoints or ideological messaging.

As such:

    •	🧠 The dataset may contain propaganda, nationalist, or anti-democracy narratives
    •	🧭 Users should apply critical analysis and ethical caution in usage
    •	📖 This dataset is provided for research transparency, language documentation, and AI training — not to support any political ideology

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📜 License and Intent

While I do not claim copyright over the original articles, I compiled and cleaned this dataset from publicly accessible government websites as a global citizen, with the belief that:

    •	🧾 These contents were produced with taxpayer funding under state media
    •	🤝 The Myanmar public collectively owns the information, and it should be available for open access and critical use

✅ You may:

    •	Use, share, or adapt the dataset
    •	Apply it for academic, commercial, or research use
    •	Train AI or language models with it

❌ You may NOT:

    •	Misrepresent the source of the data
    •	Claim ownership over the original MOI content

This dataset is released “as-is”, with no guarantees. Please use it responsibly and respectfully.

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💬 Author’s Note

I receive no financial benefit for this release. I made this dataset because I believe the Myanmar language deserves representation in the digital era. We need more open, accessible, and transparent resources for:

    •	🕊️ Information freedom
    •	🌐 Minority language inclusion
    •	🤖 Fair AI development

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📫 Contact

Have questions, want to collaborate, or improve the dataset?

You can reach me at:

• 📧 Email: freococo@gmail.com
• 🤗 Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/freococo

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📚 Citation

@misc{moi2025newsdataset,
  title = {MOI News & Article Dataset},
  author = {freococo},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/freococo/moi-news-articles-dataset}},
  note = {Burmese-language news + article dataset from Myanmar Ministry of Information}
}